So, we're probably all pretty aware of the Tower of Hanoi problem. To recap, you have three stacks, two are empty, and one has n plates on it, each plate has a number on it from 1 to n and the plates are in order, with 1 at the top. A move consists of taking the plate on top of one stack and putting...

relatively straightforward Either get people to pick random numbers, or calculate a hash of some file they provide (a selfie or whatever). Person with the lowest hash attacks the person with the second lowest hash... person with the second highest attacks person with the highest, and person ...

I'm not around much. If you want action here, you can try PMing me. I've just subscribed to the thread, so it should be a little more speedily maintained going forward (thought I did that before, anywoops...). Thanks to Lavendar Manna for pinging me.

I can't really say that I see the small circle as any more natural than the large. If I want to describe where a missile can run out of fuel (a relatively natural question) whether its larger or smaller than a hemisphere is of little note.

I think what you are doing right now, Snarlock, has aspects that are really sensible and admirable, but also parts that are deeply misguided. The big problem I see here is mindset. You seem to have what's called a fixed mindset. What is better for you, your kids, and everyone else, is a growth minds...

From what I've heard, the Liberals (right-wing party) won in 2013 due to internal conflict between former PMs Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard in the Labor (no u!) Party. The Liberal leader Tony Abbott proved his utter incompetence in the ensuing two years, and was sacked and replaced with the somewhat...

We just had an election, and its looking like a very close thing. Like, hung parliament close. There's a lot of background that is probably not that interesting to people not in this part of the world, but its a bit of a clusterfuck for the right. We also changed our voting methodology for the senat...

Hollywood has now fallen completely through the rabbit hole. "Tetris gets trilogy as story 'too big' to fit into single film." I think we'll find they just haven't put things together optimally. They'll've left gaps, been too hasty, and what's left will feel patchy and jumbled, despite th...

It's a series of puns (sore/saw, whole/hole, hoarse/horse). What dialect do you speak such that sore and saw are homophones? I've never, ever heard that. They don't even have the same vowel for me, let alone the same post-vowel sound (which is "none" for saw). I believe ConMan is from oz,...

Speaking of vague, maybe it's just me, but I have no idea what your first question means. Proper email verification is built into modern mail servers, AFAIK, and has nothing to do with using a single IP. The way I see it, there are a few different questions that a site could be intending to answer ...

I think, for the first one, you want to be transparent with your user. Which means sending an email that they then demonstrate receiving by following some particular link, or inputting some particular data. Trying to sidestep this isn't sensible imo. Sure, formatting and sending emails that work wit...

These are much more along the lines of linguistic tricks. And that's okay, I mean, lots of people are into that. But its not really what I want to encourage here in Logic Puzzles. So, please stop posting these sorts of linguistic puzzles. -jr

Okay, then I officially hate Java. Yeah, Java has primitive types that are mirrored by actual classes. The thing I'm actually learning, Scala, tidies this up into "everything is an object" (apart from the dot operator, and a few other things) but Java itself seems like a train-wreck of sh...

↶ all this "made up" dismissal of neopronouns is really rude and silly. you incorporate neologisms into your vocabulary all the time. I largely agree with you here robin12, but so long as its not a whole lot of people coming in here to argue, and people aren't snarky towards others, I thi...

But you can publish with people who have published with people who have published with erdos, which would make your erdos number 3. And as soon as you collaborate with people, it will be very likely that you have a well defined erdos number. I agree that it has no deep meaning, but people will play ...

Quizatzhaderac Don't blame FPTP on the GOP's mistakes. It's the delegate rules such as thresholds minimums that allows Trump to win with a plurality. Effects have multiple causes. You may be right about the other Republican policies doing this job, but I was really making a statement about voting s...

Not even slightly a go expert, but when I used to play, I used to read a lot about the good players and how they would play the man more than the position. They would know the flavour of go that the other person was going to play and do what they could with that information ie plan with it, set trap...

...Now we've decided that in fact nothing is falling, or going back and forth - in fact everything is going in a straight line, but heavy things can change what a straight line is. And someone had to invent ridiculously crazy geometry and calculus to work *that* out... Actually, there was no need t...

Trump once again threatens a third-party run. Wouldn't that damage his brand (to use that shitty advertising style of speech)? He presents as a straight shooter, and real. He stated in one of the debates that he would not run as a third party candidate. So obviously going against his word would sur...

And note that you can set a breakpoint on that line in your code, then see what the types are. It would have been immediately obvious when you saw that "anarray" had the value "1". ^_^ Yeah, I tried console.logging stuff and just couldn't work out what was happening. I should ha...